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 PUBLIC LAW 106-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-258 operations on federal lands by federal and state air, water, solid waste, reclamation and other environmental statutes, including surface management regulations promulgated by federal land management agencies and state primacy programs under applicable federal statutes and state laws and the time requirements applicable to project environmental review and permitting; (B) the adequacy of federal and state environmental, reclamation and permitting statutes and regulations applicable in any state or states where mining or exploration of locatable minerals on federal lands is occurring, to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation; and (C) recommendations and conclusions regarding how federal and state environmental, reclamation and permitting requirements and programs can be coordinated to ensure environmental protection, increase efficiency, avoid duplication and delay, and identify the most cost-effective manner for implementation. (b) REPORT. — No later thein July 31, 1999, the Board shall submit a report addressing areas described under (a)(1) to the appropriate federal agencies, the Congress and the Governors of affected states. (c) FUNDS. —From the funds collected for mining law administration, the Secretary shall provide to the NAS such funds as it requests, not to exceed $800,000, for the purpose of conducting this Einalysis. (d) SURFACE MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS.— The Secretary of the Interior shall not promulgate any final regulations to change the Bureau of Land Management regulations found at 43 CFR Part 3809 prior to September 30, 1999. SEC. 121. Overhead charges levied by the Fish and Wildlife Service on any and all funds transferred from the Bureau of Reclamation for the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin and for the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the San Juan River Basin shall be limited to no more than 50 percent of the biennially determined full indirect cost recovery rate. SEC. 122. (a) ANCSA DETERMINATION.— (1) Within 180 days following the enactment of this Act, the Bureau of Land Management shall conduct a determination under section 3(e) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) of the property described as Lot 1, Block 12; the north 50 feet of Lots 43 and 44, Block 12; Lots 50, 51 and 52, Block 12; Lots 28 and 29, Block 33; and a strip of land 25 feet in length running east and west by 24 feet in width running north and south in the southwest comer of Lot 15, Block 33, all within the Nome Townsite, Records of the Cape Nome Recording District, Second Judicial District, State of Alaska. (2) The ANCSA section 3(e) determination will determine if the lands must be conveyed to the Sitnasuak Native Corporation (the village corporation for Nome). (3) If and only if the Bureau of Land Management's ANCSA section 3(e) determination concludes that the SitnasusQc Native Corporation is not entitled to the lands, and following the settlement of any and all claims filed appealing the decision.

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